Show A average v state income tax around have you figured out your state tax yet if you find that you owe the state uniform school fund payable of course through the state tax commission and the state slate treasury about 30 or a trifle less you will be shelling out close to the average pay 1 ment for this state tax last year it appears from a statement prepared in the office of the tax commission some persons filed individual income tax returns many reported no tax at all due the state at the other end of the scale persons with sizable net incomes reported much more than 30 due the state the of taxes collected under the individual income tax lax law last year was which makes the average 2836 1 I 1 this amount was about a third higher than the average for the preceding year 2113 per return filed one reason for the difference was that world war il II veterans last year no longer had a special ex exemption emption the number of individual in income tax returns filed in 1950 1 was so that there was an increase increase in returns of 56 per cent in addition to the per cent increase in the tax due the state and the yield from the tax last year was near per cent higher than the collected by the tax commission during 1950 with full employment some increase in population and generally higher wages or salaries said patrick fealk jr chai chairman of the tax commission we might expect approximately the income tax payments during 1952 as in 1951 however the provision that permits a considerable number of the taxpayers y ers to use the abort 1 form for rn calculated at about one tenth of the amount they pay the federal government if they use the short form there will probably reduce the state yield how much is any body blodys I 1 s guess if a taxpayer finds he can save money by using the federal laws provisions which ac h include for example exemption per dependent he will naturally do so if he be gets off with a smaller payment by working out his state tax as he has in the past he will use that hence the new law will have a tendency to reduce the amount received from persons in the lower income brackets |